R. McGiverin announced he would be
recruiting persons to serve in the pool for members for the Strategic Planning
Task Force.

IV.Remarks of the Dean of Library Services

A.LibQUAL

M. McCallister remarked there has
not been a good turnout of students to take the LibQUAL library evaluation
survey.She wants to set up two laptop
computers in the Commons and try to entice students into taking the
survey.She is recruiting faculty and
staff to cover shifts there between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Monday, October
23, Tuesday, October 24, Monday, October 30 and Tuesday, October 31.

B.Electronic
Resources Librarian

M. McCallister compiled a list of
tasks for this person to do.She tried
to convert an empty support staff position, but Human Resources denied her
request and told her to fill out another form and submit it to the Job
Evaluation Team (JET) which looks at positions with IT components.JET ruled not to accept the position.She made a request for a faculty
position.This request was denied, but
the need for the position continues.She
will therefore issue an invitation for someone on the library faculty to take
this job full time.The person would
need to be able to work with Acquisitions, Systems, Reference/Instruction and
other stakeholders involved with the library’s electronic resources.If there are no volunteers, someone will be
drafted.Whoever fills the position,
adjustments will be needed to fill the gap created by the transfer.

C.Searches

The Metadata Librarian Search
Committee will be chaired by Cinda May, with members Karen Evans, Rolland
McGiverin, Chris Mehrens and Carol Vanatti.

The Head of Reference Search
Committee is being chaired by Juliet Kerico, with members Betsy Hine, Anthony
Kaiser, Barb Austin and Paula Huey.

The Science/Technology Librarian
will be chaired by Steve Hardin, with members Susan Frey, Elizabeth Wright and
Wilma Turetzky.

M. McCallister noted in her
earlier discussions about the Head of Library Systems position that “OIT” had
been affixed to the position.She wanted
to figure out what that meant, but hasn’t had the meeting yet.She did receive an email from Bob English in
Academic Affairs which said that Mark Green, special assistant to the Provost,
had informed him that the Head of Library Systems position has not been
approved; it may become an EAP position.There will be no ad in the Chronicle
of Higher Education until the matter has been resolved.She’s meeting with M. Green and the Provost
October 25.Making the position EAP
would be difficult; it would make it the only library department chair not a
faculty position.She wants to be able
to depend on the library faculty to make phone calls to universities to ask
about library systems people.She said
it shouldn’t take too much time.B. Hine
asked if the position could be made an assistant to the Dean as an EAP.The Head of Library Systems used to be an Assistant
Dean.M. McCallister noted there were no
faculty slots in OIT organization.M. Miller
noted that Scott Davis, when he was on the library faculty, used to say the
technology should not run the service.We
as faculty need to state clearly that we do not want this position lost because
people who don’t understand it don’t think it’s a faculty position.M. McCallister said we want to make the argument
that the person in this position has no one above them telling them what to do and
how to do it.The person needs a sense
of how library systems operate – we don’t want a person who’ll fix Banner.This is different from a technician’s
position; this person would be a problem solver.Someone who lacks a library background would
not be in good position to solve library problems.K. Gaul noted the person shouldn’t have to
have the basics of the library field explained to them.M. McCallister said she’s concerned about
having a “peer who’s not a peer.”She
asked the faculty how they would feel about not filling it if the position is
not approved as faculty.E. Wright said
she was not sure what that would accomplish other than registering our displeasure.M. Miller noted it would also put extra
pressure on the remaining people in Systems.J. Kerico asked whether a faculty member who’s already here could be
moved over the head systems.V. Muyumba
responded that we’d be doing ourselves out of a faculty position if we did
that.S. Frey wanted to know, if the
position becomes EAP, whether we would get someone with an MLS, and whether
they would report to us or to OIT?An
extended discussion about the situation followed.

V.Remarks of the Faculty Senators

M. Miller reported she has been
appointed to the Task Force on the First Year Experience (“TAFFY”).The report the Task Force has put out
includes two major features: one, that some people are bandying about the
concept of a “university college,” and two, there’s still a lot about Gen
Ed.It’ll be interesting, she said.

She also said the Faculty Senate
meeting on September 28th considered changes in faculty enrollment
on campus.It also featured an
impassioned statement from Pete Carino about the need for better support of the
WritingCenter, which, while housed within the
English Department, actually serves students from all over campus.

The Executive Committee featured a
presentation by the ISU Foundation.

The Executive Committee this week
came after the announcement of the resignation of the Dean of the College of Business.The Provost said he’ll meet with the College of Business faculty.

Next week, consultants will be on
campus discussing the proposed College of Nursing/Health & Human
Performance merger.There will also be a
two-day chair’s retreat.

A proposal was received to rename
all the annual faculty awards and change the rules so that there persons would
have to be winners of awards at the college level to be eligible for awards at
the university level, which also would include external review.These proposals have gone to the University
Faculty Affairs Committee.Library
faculty has been excluded; the language specifically mentions all colleges
except the library.She said UFAC needs
to change that.

VI.Remarks from Library Support Staff

None.

VII.15-Minute Open Discussion

There was some discussion about the
program reduction proposal story in today’s Tribune-Star.M. Miller said there as been a call for
streamlining the procedure to get rid of courses.The next North Central accreditation is in
2010.The self-study will be started in
2008.

B. Hine asked wither the LFA needs
to notify people about the number of tables in 028.There has been a shortage lately.A reminder needs to be sent to Bev Grubb a
day or two before the meeting.

B. Hine also noted that yesterday
three persons went to the 14th & ChestnutCommunity Center
to start sorting books.Chris Nkongola
is coordinating the schedule for volunteers who want to help.Participants need to fill out a blanket leave
request.

VIII.Committee Reports

A.Library
Administrative Affairs Committee

J. Kerico reported the LAAC has
not organized yet.

B.Library
Faculty Affairs Committee

M. Miller announced LFAC had its
organizational meeting on October 10.She was elected chair; S. Frey is the recorder.Continuing business from last year is to do
something with the TPAPR form.No
meetings have been scheduled until after the book sale.

C.Personnel
Committee

K. Gaul reported the Committee had
its organizational meeting.David Vancil
is the chair; V. Muyumba is the secretary.

D.Search
Committees Reports

None.

E.Senate/University
Committees

1.University
Academic Affairs Committee

S. Frey reported the Committee
was asked to look at the job description for the new VP for Enrollment
Management.The position is supposed to
speak to the problems we’re having with organizing our registration
process.Students have had to reregister
because office loses things.The
committee also wants the person to have a track record on student
retention.The committee also asked that
the search comm. Include at least one person from outside the university who
has experience with the kind of job we’re trying to fill.

2.University
Faculty Affairs Committee

B. Hine reported the committee
met yesterday.Its first charge was to
name award selection committees.The new
charge M. Miller mentioned earlier about the revisions to the awards committee
will be taken up later.B. Hine said she
noticed the lack of mention of the library.The idea of the revisions is to gain more national recognition.

3.Faculty
Economic Benefits Committee

K. Gaul reported the committee
met on the 16th.It discussed
the allocation of $1.35-million that President Benjamin announced in the fall
faculty meeting.The committee agreed to
recommend distributing a portion of that money to those earning less than
$30-thousand per year, which includes support staffers and EAP employees.The remaining money would go tin instruction
needs such as the WritingCenter and adjuncts.

4.Student
Affairs Committee

S. Hardin and J. Kerico reported
the committee met last Friday and discussed eliminating the printed class
schedule.Also discussed were charges
about grade inflation and students’ perceived lack of challenge in their
classes.In addition, the committee is
considering changes in criteria for continued enrollment by students below a
certain grade point average.

IX.Old Business

A.Status
of Committee Charges

1.LAAC

R. McGiverin said the first
charge will be to review the automatic charges in the faculty manual.In addition, he proposed the LAAC develop a
faculty government web page, including the faculty manual, policies and
procedures, leave documents, travel documents, calendar and other items.It would facilitate our work.He also proposed charging the LAAC with
developing a new public computer usage policy, and with revising the fine
policy.B. Hine seconded.K. Gaul recommended the faculty governance
web pages should also include committee memberships.The motion passed unanimously.

2.LFAC

Again, R. McGiverin said the first
charge is to review the automatic charges in the faculty manual. He also proposed charging the LFAC with
finding and finalizing the PTOC document, finalizing the evaluation documents,
working on the new faculty orientation program on conjunction with what the
Dean is doing with orientation.M.
McCallister noted Amy Edwards will help with this project.B. Hine seconded approval of these charges.The motion passed unanimously.

X.New Business

A.Additional
member for LAAC

J. Kerico nominated E. Wright to
serve on LAAC.She said it was important
that we have the head of circulation on that committee.B. Hine seconded the nomination.The motion passed unanimously.

B.Parliamentarian’s
ruling on LFA and committee quorums

Parliamentarian J. Kerico has done
some investigating; we can set our own criteria for what constitutes a
quorum.Standard practice has been 2/3
of the membership.For this body, that
works out to 5.28.Should we round up or
down?She rules that we can round
down.So five will constitute a quorum
for LFA.No vote was required because
this is a ruling from the Parliamentarian.

C.Charging
LFA to review grievance procedures (in the LFA directory)

R. McGiverin said that LFAC sent
to LFA last year the revisions to the handbook.They’re in the LFA subdirectory.The
first document for review will be the grievance document.He will send out a message requesting
everyone to review it.Red type
indicates language recommended for removal; green type is language recommended
to be added; yellow type is language with questions.B. Hine said the idea is to bring it into
compliance with university specifications.R. McGiverin said the LFA will look at other documents in the
future.For the next meeting, review the
grievance document; we will vote on it at the next meeting.

D.Form
for charges

R. McGiverin said the Library
Executive Committee is proposing a new form to track charges.B. Hine moved that we accept the form; M.
Miller seconded.R. McGiverin noted
there’s been difficulty keeping track of charges; they’ve dropped through the cracks,
and there’s been confusion about who’s supposed to send what to where
when.We hope this document will help us
keep track of the charges.B. Hine said
the main addition is the indication of direction of where things are
going.The motion passed 6-0-1.